What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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